the shattering of all pictures

Charlotte Joko Beck
Quote

"Someone said to me a few days ago, "You know,
you never talk about enlightenment. Could you say
something about it?" The problem with talking about
enlightenment is that our talk tends to create a picture
of what it is - yet enlightenment is not a picture but
the shattering of all our pictures. And a shattered life
isn't what we are hoping for."

Quoted form Halfway Up the Mountain - the error of premature
claims to enlightenment by Mariana Caplan

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